. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . ces cheek ;Patience his maid, of beauteous featureIn fine, a handsome, jolly priest soon made his visitation,)To give his deacon consolation;Mong other things of good intention,(For priests have often strong invention,)He told him patience must be tried,Patience ! the deacon said, and sighd,Alas ! I ve tried her till I m sick,And Patience always tries to kick. PHYSICIANS The first Physician by debauch was made;Excess began, and sloth sustains the trade:By chase our long-lived fathers earned their food;Toil strung the nerves, and pu
. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . ces cheek ;Patience his maid, of beauteous featureIn fine, a handsome, jolly priest soon made his visitation,)To give his deacon consolation;Mong other things of good intention,(For priests have often strong invention,)He told him patience must be tried,Patience ! the deacon said, and sighd,Alas ! I ve tried her till I m sick,And Patience always tries to kick. PHYSICIANS The first Physician by debauch was made;Excess began, and sloth sustains the trade:By chase our long-lived fathers earned their food;Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood ;But we their sons, a pampered race of menAre dwindled down to three score years and to hunt in fields for health unbought,Than fee the Doctors for a nauseous wise for cure, on exercise depend ;God never made his works for man to mend. OCT3 To separate the useful from the honest,is imprudent ; as if any thing were really use-ful that is not honest.—[Socrates. No. xvil] AND LADYS COMPANION. 265 THE Purgatives should not be used in any case whatever. Theyare at variance with every principle of my system, as will beseen by reference to the New Guide. They irritate the bowels,and destroy the equilibrium of the circulation, which we shouldalways endeavor to avoid. The sudden deaths of which we of-ten hear as occurring among the Thomsonians, are no doubtprincipally owing to the administration of cathartics. * * *Since my Agents have discarded the use of butternut and bitter-root, they are mueh more successful in their practice. Samuel Thomson. BOSTON, JULY 15, 1840. DEATH OF MR. FULLER. We have the melancholy task of recording theloss of a firm friend and strenuous advocate forthe Thomsonian system of medicine, in the deceaseof the Rev. Savillion W. Fuller, of Philadel-phia, who died on the 17th ult. of Phthsis Pulmo-nalis, (Tubercular Consumption.) — The Thom-sonian Sentinel, pays the following tribute of re-spect to his memor
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